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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Samsung India today launched a new variant of
Galaxy S8+ with 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage, following the tremendous
response to its recently-launched flagship smartphones Galaxy S8 and Galaxy
S8+.

The new variant, which will be available
in Midnight Black colour, retains its flagship style - with a
stunning bezel-less dual-edge Infinity Display that provides a truly cinematic
viewing experience. The new Galaxy S8+ also comes with Samsung Pay - the mobile
payment service with defense-grade security, the best low-light camera and
personal assistant, Bixby.

The new Galaxy S8+ builds on Samsung’s
heritage of creating stunning designs and meaningful innovations that transform
people’s lives. Following the success of the flagship smartphones and great
response from Indian market for Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, Samsung is launching
the newer variant with 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage.

"The resounding success of the recently
launched Galaxy S8 & Galaxy S8+ underscores the unmatched
superiority of Samsung in the premium smartphone segment. The new Galaxy S8+ variant with
its best in class 6GB RAM & 128GB internal memory, will give our
consumers the freedom to do infinitely more. It is the ultimate device for
power users who aspire to explore new possibilities, are always on top of their
game and for whom multi-tasking is a way of life,” said
Asim Warsi, Senior Vice President, Mobile Business, Samsung India.

An efficient device and a definite showstopper
in terms of looks, the new Galaxy S8+ is
the best choice for consumers looking for a seamless experience even while
using dual SIM.

Galaxy with Infinite
Possibilities

The new Galaxy S8+ packs in enhanced performance and features:

·Infinite Performance: The new Galaxy S8+ is powered with 6GB
RAM. This makes the device infinitely powerful and allows multitasking with
immaculate efficiency. With increased memory, you can have a seamless
experience when playing graphically intensive games.

·InfiniteEntertainment: As the world’s first mobile
device certified by the UHD Alliance as MOBILE HDR PREMIUMTM, the
new Galaxy S8+ lets you see the same vibrant colours and
contrasts that filmmakers intended while watching your favourite shows. It also
offers next-level gaming experience with vivid and superior graphic technology,
as well as Game Pack, featuring top game titles, including select titles
supported by the Vulkan API.

·Infinite Camera: The new Galaxy S8+ is equipped with 12MP
rear camera with Dual Pixel Technology and 8MP front camera with smart
autofocus, with F1.7 aperture that is perfect for taking bright and
high-resolution photos even in low light conditions. With this enhanced
variant, consumers will not have to worry about running out of space while
clicking pictures and storing memories on their phones.

·Infinite Convenience: The new Galaxy S8+ with 128GB storage makes
your experiences unforgettable, flawless and smooth. It will, in particular,
serve best to customers who use dual SIM and require large memory.

Availability

The Samsung Galaxy S8+
128GB, with its sleek and
premium design, is available in Midnight Black colour. Consumers can
pre-book the new Galaxy S8+ on Samsung Shop and Flipkart starting
from June 2. As an introductory offer, all the customers will also be
eligible for a free Wireless Charger.

The Samsung Galaxy S8+ 128GB will be priced
at Rs
74,900and will be availableacross India from June 9.

IT companies can
protect the jobs of youngsters if senior executives take pay cuts, said Infosys
co-founder NR Narayana Murthy.

He added that the
industry has dealt with the issue several times in the past.

Murthy said he has no
doubt that all industry leaders have good intentions to solve the problem of
layoffs.

"There are a lot
of smart leaders in the industry, but I have no doubt at all that they are all
well-intentioned people and they can find solutions," he told news channel
ET Now.

Murthy also said this
is not for the first time that the industry has faced the layoff problem and
hence there should not be any extreme anxiety as the industry had dealt the
issue and found solutions then."Let us remember we have gone through this
several times in the past. We went through that in 2008, in 2001. So, this is
nothing new. Therefore, there is no need for us to become extremely anxious. We
have had solutions to such problems in the past," he said.

Giving example of
Infosys on how they tackled the layoff problem, Murthy said the company could
protect the jobs of youngsters after executives at senior management level took
pay cuts.

"I have a feeling
that it is possible for us to protect the jobs of youngsters if the senior
management people were to make some minor adjustments - adjustment of taking
salary cuts," Murthy said.

The senior-most people
at the internal director level took the highest pay cut, and then to follow
suit was the senior vice president who took a slightly lower cut, Murthy said.

Murthy said Infosys
did this in 2001 when the market shrunk. "Let me give you example of
Infosys itself. When the market became very tough and it shrank actually in
2001. We all sat together with senior management and then we said - look let us
make some sacrifice and ensure that we protect the jobs of youngsters," he
said.

"That time we had
offered jobs to 1,500 engineers. Several companies were postponing the joining
day. We said let us not do that, let us demonstrate the commitment to
youngsters by senior people taking some salary cuts based on the disposable
income as we go down the hierarchy and welcome those 1,500 engineers," he
added.

Murthy also said
parallelly, industry leaders will identify new areas of opportunity and mount
training programmes to train youngsters and give them enough opportunities to
pick up technologies and ask them to work hard and ensure they are in a
position to add value to the company in next one year, and if they failed they
could look out for another job.

"It is not fair
to simply send somebody home, and then let them become very very anxious,
because they may have families depending on them. They may have children,
parents, spouses and all that, so it is incumbent on leaders of the industry to
find reasonable solutions..." he said.

Cisco and IBM
Security has announced they are working together to address the growing global
threat of cybercrime. In a new agreement, Cisco and IBM Security will work
closely together across products, services and threat intelligence for the
benefit of customers.

Cisco security
solutions will integrate with IBM’s QRadar to protect organizations across
networks, endpoints and cloud. Customers will also benefit from the scale of
IBM Global Services support of Cisco products in their Managed Security Service
Provider (MSSP) offerings. The agreement also establishes a new relationship
between the IBM X-Force and Cisco Talos security research teams who will begin
collaborating on threat intelligence research and coordinating on major
cybersecurity incidents.

One of the core
issues impacting security teams is the proliferation of security tools that do
not communicate or integrate. A recentCisco surveyof 3,000 chief security officers found
that 65 percent of their organizations use between six and 50 different
security products. Managing such complexity is challenging over-stretched
security teams and can lead to potential gaps in security. The Cisco and IBM
Security relationship is focused on helping organizations reduce the time
required to detect and mitigate threats, offering organizations integrated
tools to help them automate a threat response with greater speed and accuracy.

“In
cybersecurity, taking a data-driven approach is the only way to stay ahead of
the threats impacting your business,” said Bill Heinrich, Chief Information
Security Director, BNSF Railway. “Cisco and IBM working together greatly
increases our team’s ability to focus on stopping threats versus making
disconnected systems work with each other. This more open and collaborative
approach is an important step for the industry and our ability to defend
ourselves against cybercrime.”

Integrating
Threat Defenses Across Networks and Cloud

The cost of data
breaches to enterprises continues to rise. In 2016, the Ponemon Institute found
for companies surveyed thecost was at its highest everat $4 million - up 29 percent over the
past three years. A slow response can also impact the cost of a breach –
incidents that took longer than 30 days to contain cost $1 million more than
those containedwithin 30 days. These rising costs make
visibility into threats, and blocking them quickly, central to an integrated
threat defense approach.

The combination
of Cisco’s best-of-breed security offerings and its architectural approach,
integrated with IBM’s Cognitive Security Operations Platform, will help
customers secure their organizations more effectively from the network to the
endpoint to the cloud. As part of the collaboration, Cisco will build new applications
for IBM’s QRadar security analytics platform. The first two new applications
will be designed to help security teams understand and respond to advanced
threats and will be available on the IBM Security App Exchange. These will
enhance user experience, and help clients identify and remediate incidents more
effectively when working with Cisco’s Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW),
Next-Generation Intrusion Protection System (NGIPS) and Advanced Malware
Protection (AMP) and Threat Grid.

In addition,
IBM’s Resilient Incident Response Platform (IRP) will integrate with Cisco’s
Threat Grid to provide security teams with insights needed to respond to
incidents faster. For example, analysts in the IRP can look up indicators of
compromise with Cisco Threat Grid's threat intelligence, or detonate suspected
malware with its sandbox technology. This enables security teams to gain
valuable incident data in the moment of response.

“Cisco’s
architectural approach to security allows organizations to see a threat once,
and stop it everywhere. By combining Cisco’s comprehensive security portfolio
with IBM Security’s operations and response platform, Cisco and IBM bring
best-of-breed products and solutions across the network, endpoint and cloud,
paired with advanced analytics and orchestration capabilities,” said David
Ulevitch, SVP and general manager, Cisco Security.

“IBM has long
been a proponent of open collaboration and threat sharing in cybersecurity,”
said Marc van Zadelhoff, general manager, IBM Security. “With Cisco joining our
immune system of defense, joint customers will greatly expand their ability to
enhance their use of cognitive technologies like IBM Watson for Cybersecurity.
Also, having our IBM X-Force and Cisco Talos teams collaborating is a
tremendous advantage for the good guys in the fight against cybercrime.”

Threat
Intelligence and Managed Services

IBM X-Force and
Cisco Talos research teams will collaborate on security research aimed at
addressing the most challenging cybersecurity problems facing mutual customers
by connecting their leading experts. For joint customers, IBM will deliver an
integration between X-Force Exchange and Cisco’s Threat Grid. This integration
greatly expands the historical and real-time threat intelligence that security
analysts can correlate for deeper insights.

For example,
Cisco and IBM recently shared threat intelligence as part of the recent
WannaCry ransomware attacks. The teams coordinated their response and
researchers exchanged insights into how the malware was spreading. They
continue to collaborate on the investigation to ensure joint customers, and the
industry, have the most relevant information.

Through this
expanded collaboration, IBM’s Managed Security Services team, which manages
security for over 3,700 customers globally, will work with Cisco to deliver new
services aimed at further reducing complexity. One of the first offerings is
designed for the growing hybrid cloud market. As enterprise customers migrate
security infrastructure to public and private cloud providers, IBM Security
will provide Managed Security Services in support of Cisco security platforms
in leading public cloud services.

Truecaller’s ad platform is taking a lead
in the In-App mobile programmatic advertising by delivering nationwide scale
and reach while also driving engagement with audiences. First year of the
platform has seen leading businesses already keeping it at the heart of their
campaign.

Being
third most used and downloaded app in India, the Truecaller platform through
partner campaigns delivered maximum reach and returns for leading businesses
like Vivo during IPL, Amazon, Pizza Hut, Myntra, Koovs.com and Oneplus among
many more…

According
toTejinder Gill, VP Sales and
Head of India Operations at Truecaller,“From
day one we are solving a marketer’s need to reach a wider audience in a country
like India where TV, Print and Outdoor are the most used but expensive
propositions. Our biggest strength is the engagement and undivided attention we
can provide to advertisers. We can deliver a brand’s message and enable them to
stay on top of the consumer’s mind simply by the fact that we are not an
‘appointment viewing’ app. This is proven by the fact that over 70% of our
advertisers are repeat customers, which assures us of the efficacy of our
platform.”

Planning and Buying, Interactive Avenues,
adds“It has been a pleasure witnessing Truecaller’s journey in
the mobile ad space. From the time they opened up their ads platform, they have
focused on their core, which is delivering value to clients through reach,
value & scale. Interactive Avenues has been closely associated with
Truecaller to deliver this very value to our clients, and they’re very
satisfied with the results. For a platform to go from delivering 40 Million to
100 Million impressions a day,in 4 monthsis
no small feat. Not to mention delivering over 100,000 clicks per day from a
qualified audience of smartphone users with data. I can’t wait to see what
barrier they’ll break next and I’m sure Interactive Avenues will share this
achievement with them soon.”

Associated
brands have received an overwhelming traction on the platform and continue to
bet big after witnessing great engagement for their campaigns.

Siddharth
Banerjee - EVP and Head – Brand Communications and Insights,Vodafone India, adds“We expected Truecaller to deliver
but the performance exceeded our outlook. Vodafone’s campaigns on Truecaller
are delivering more than 100 Million impressions in a day, also delivering well
in terms of performance. Vodafone India looks forward to more collaborations as
we experiment with their new products and assets.”

The
government in India is forecast to spend $7.8 billion US dollars (USD) on IT in
2017, 7.5 percent increase from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. This is down
from Gartner’s previous projection for 9.5 percent growth this year.

“The 2 percent
revision in our outlook is primarily due to the effects of demonetization and a
drop in industrial production,” saidMoutusi Sau, principal research analyst at
Gartner. “However, spending plans like affordable housing scheme, and increased
loans to small and medium enterprises by the government are likely to have a
positive effect on IT spending in the next few quarters.”

IT services(which includes consulting, software
support, business process outsourcing, IT outsourcing, implementation, and
hardware support) is expected to grow 10.8 percent in 2017 to reach $2 billion
USD, making it the largest IT spending category.

VLCC, a globally renowned brand in beauty and wellness industry,
today announced its foray into the fast growing nutraceuticals industry with
the acquisition of the Direct Selling business of Wellscience, a
Gurugram-based company that offers a comprehensive range of high quality
nutraceutical supplements and personal care products catering to customer
requirements across age groups.To be rebranded VLCC Wellscience, the
company’s products are all Ayurvedic or herbal and address condition specific
wellness needs of customers, using an innovative Active Identifiable
Marker (AIM) technology.

Commenting on the acquisition, Mukesh Luthra, Chairman,
VLCC Group, said, “Combining its strategy to enter new
and emerging categories in the Beauty and Wellness domain at large with
the strategy to enter new channels of distribution, to reach out to a
larger set of consumers of Beauty and Wellness offerings, VLCC is now further
extending its presence in the high-growth Fast Moving Healthcare
Goods (FMHG) segment, with its foray into the nutraceuticals and
cosmeceuticals segment, and retailing these products through the
Direct Selling channel, which is an emerging opportunity given that
the Government of India has very recently clarified regulations governing
this industry.”

“VLCC is already present in the FMHG segment with its VLCC
Slimmer’s range of fortified/functional foods and expanding to
nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals is a natural extension our products
business”, Mr. Luthra further added.

Wellscience was established in 2009 by a team led by Lajinder
Bawa. He will continue to lead the business as the CEO of VLCC Wellscience. A
20-year veteran of the Direct Selling Industry, he is credited with having
brought it to the country when he became the founding CEO of Oriflame India in
1995. He has also been an advisor to leading Direct Selling players, including
Modicare and Hindustan Lever Network.

Commenting on the synergy between the two businesses, Mr. Lajinder
Bawa said, “This is a significant step forward for Wellscience. VLCC has been
committed to transforming lives for close to three decades and ensures that its
product lines and service offerings are of utmost efficacy and quality, at all
times. We believe that the brand values of Wellscience are in sync with the
values of VLCC and this partnership will provide us the necessary thrust
required for our next level of growth.”

Within the overall FMCG domain in India, the FMHG segment
is one of the fastest growing. According to a 2015 Assocham-RNCOS
study, this segment is likely to touch US$ 6.1 billion by 2020 from
the current level of US$ 2.8 billion, growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17 per cent.

More specifically with respect to the nutraceuticals market in
India, it is expected to double to INR 267.64 billion by 2020 and grow at a
CAGR of 16% over the next 5 years, as per a recent study by the Drug Marketing
and ;Manufacturing Association (DMMA).

Furthermore, the Health and Wellness products market in
India through Direct Selling is estimated at over Rs 35
billion, contributing 47 per cent share to the total Direct Selling
market.

Uber, the world’s largest
ridesharing app that connects riders with drivers to provide convenient,
reliable and affordable rides at the push of a button, today announced the
launch of the ‘Driver Compliments’ feature. Through this feature Uber aims to
make it possible for riders to positively reinforce good behaviour and in the
process humanize the relationship between the riders and driver partners.

“Last month, we launched
community guidelines with the objective of encouraging mutual respect, and we
are now excited to introduce ‘Compliments’. Our
driver partners deliver millions of safe rides everyday and in many instances
go beyond their call of duty. We hope our riders take a moment to express their
appreciation by using this feature. It will encourage our driver partners to do
even better!,” said Pradeep Parameswaran, Head, Central Operation, Uber
India.

Once a
rider leaves a compliment, drivers will get a notification in app, taking them
to the message and the compliments badge they’ve collected - whether that’s for
expert navigation, great music choice or excellent service - because sometimes
the little things make all the difference, and 5 stars are not enough.

“The
sanctioned amount is more, but planned spend is around ₹700 crore on two new plants at
Anantapur and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh,” said BEL’s Chairman & Managing Director M Gowtama.

At
Nimmaluru village, near Machilipatnam, the company is building new advanced
night vision products factory and plans are afoot to expand night vision
devices business. At Anantapur, a dedicated defence systems integration complex
at Palasamudram is planned. In addition to these plants, the company is also
creating dedicated business groups to address home land security and smart city
business. On the sales outlook for 2017-18, Gowtama said “Our aim is to cross ₹10,000 crore. During 2016-17, we
clocked ₹8,825 crore.
Currently our turnover from indigenous technology is 87 per cent and sales from
defence business is 88 per cent.”

To
clock more sales, “we plan to continue indigenisation efforts in line with Make
in India. We plan to enhance capacity and create new test facilities for
defence business and are pursuing new opportunities in solar, energy, homeland
security, smart cities, smart cards and telecom,” he added.

On
electronic voting machines (EVMs), Gowtama said EVMs made by BEL are safe and
the Election Commission (EC) has placed an order for 17 lakh machines with a
budget of ₹3,100 crore.
“The EC has placed order of 8.5 lakh each with us (BEL) and ECIL.
We are committed to supply the order by September 2018. For us revenue with tax
comes to ₹1,500 crore
and without tax it will be ₹1,300 crore.”

The
company’s exports dipped 23.52 per cent to $65 million in FY17 as compared with
$85 million in FY16. Gowtama attributed the fall to Reliance Defence failing to
raise LoI.

“Otherwise we could have achieved the last fiscal sales’ level,” he
said. The company’s order book as on April 1 is at $82 million. This includes
offset order book $15 million. “This year our thrust is on exports and offsets.
Focus is on build to print, build to spec and buyer-nominated equipment.”

The
company has drawn a three-year (2017-2020) research and development (R&D)
plan.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

After the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has established itself as a dependable workhorse, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is paying special attention to its next generation rocket — the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark-III which is capable of launching 4,000-kg satellites into space.The GSLV version of the rocket was used to launch 2,000-kg satellites. The three-stag GSLV Mk-III adopts the flight-proven solid and liquid stages of the PSLV and a cryogenic upper stage.GSLV was developed to enable India to launch its heavier satellites without dependence on foreign rockets. If successful, the new rocket can project the country as a competitive player in the multi-million dollar commercial launch market.Isro scientists are optimistic over the success of the Mk-III mission in the backdrop of a series of tests carried out before going ahead with the launch arrangements.The cryogenic stage, designated as C25, was tested for a flight duration of 640 seconds at the propulsion complex at Mahendragiri in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu in February.The rocket will be carrying the GSAT-19 to space. It is likely to be launched in the next two months. The satellite is planned to carry Ka and Ku band payload along with a Geostationary Radiation Spectrometer (GRASP) payload to monitor and study the nature of the charged particles and influence of space radiation on spacecraft and electronic components.Isro working on three missions at same time For the first time, all the infrastructure at India’s spaceport — the Satish Dhawan Space Centre — is being put to use. Work related to the launch of rockets is progressing at a brisk pace.While integration of PSLV-C38 and GSLV-F09 are in progress at the buildings attached to first and second launch pads, work related to GSLV-MK 111 is going on at the solid stage assembly building. Isro officials said MK III would be shifted soon after the launch of GSLV-F09.The engineers of Isro said it is the first time that work of three launch missions is going on in full stream. The launch of the GSLV-F09 carrying the GSAT-9 satellite is planned probably on May 5. The PSLV-C3 will launch the Cartosat-2D and some foreign satellites on May 25. The bigger GSLV Mk III will carry the 4,000-kg GSAT-19 to space in June.The GSLV version of the rocket was used to launch 2,000-kg satellites. The three-stag GSLV Mk-III adopts the flight-proven solid and liquid stages of the PSLV and a cryogenic upper stage.GSLV was developed to enable India to launch its heavier satellites without dependence on foreign rockets. If successful, the new rocket can project the country as a competitive player in the multi-million dollar commercial launch market.Isro scientists are optimistic over the success of the Mk-III mission in the backdrop of a series of tests carried out before going ahead with the launch arrangements.The cryogenic stage, designated as C25, was tested for a flight duration of 640 seconds at the propulsion complex at Mahendragiri in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu in February.The rocket will be carrying the GSAT-19 to space. It is likely to be launched in the next two months. The satellite is planned to carry Ka and Ku band payload along with a Geostationary Radiation Spectrometer (GRASP) payload to monitor and study the nature of the charged particles and influence of space radiation on spacecraft and electronic components.Isro working on three missions at same time For the first time, all the infrastructure at India’s spaceport — the Satish Dhawan Space Centre — is being put to use. Work related to the launch of rockets is progressing at a brisk pace.While integration of PSLV-C38 and GSLV-F09 are in progress at the buildings attached to first and second launch pads, work related to GSLV-MK 111 is going on at the solid stage assembly building. Isro officials said MK III would be shifted soon after the launch of GSLV-F09.The engineers of Isro said it is the first time that work of three launch missions is going on in full stream. The launch of the GSLV-F09 carrying the GSAT-9 satellite is planned probably on May 5. The PSLV-C3 will launch the Cartosat-2D and some foreign satellites on May 25. The bigger GSLV Mk III will carry the 4,000-kg GSAT-19 to space in June.

Automation Anywhere, the
global leader in enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA), today announced
the availability of IQ Bot, software bots capable of studying, learning and
mimicking human behavior for intelligent process automation. By combining
cognitive abilities with practical, rule-based RPA capabilities, organizations
can quickly scale and up level their Digital Workforces to fully automate
processes end-to-end and run them independently with minimal human
intervention. The product was launched at Automation Anywhere’s Imagine, the
company’s premier customer experience event taking place in New York City.

IQ
Bot is skilled at applying human logic to document patterns and extracting
values in the same way that a human would, but with instantaneous speed, the
accuracy of a machine and with a near-zero error rate. Fully integrated with
the Automation Anywhere Enterprise platform, IQ Bot delivers organizations
enormous gains in productivity because it is capable of processing and
automating business tasks involving complex documents with unstructured data.
With Automation Anywhere’s comprehensive Digital Workforce platform, comprised
of RPA, cognitive and analytic capabilities, organizations can automate up to
80 percent of business processes, compared to the 30 percent automation
capability by using RPA alone.

“IQ
Bot is the next evolution of cognitive capabilities that significantly extends
the proficiency of RPA beyond anything we’ve yet experienced. It enables
companies to leverage what humans do best and what machines do best, delivering
the first intelligent automation platform,” said Mihir Shukla, CEO and
Co-founder, Automation Anywhere. “We strongly believe the full potential of
enterprise automation is only realized when RPA and cognitive computing work
together. With the release of IQ Bot, we are delivering critical functionality,
which can be truly transformational.”

IQ
Bot has a built-in, intuitive dashboard that makes it easy to setup and manage.
IQ Bot relies on supervised learning, meaning that every human interaction
makes IQ Bot smarter. In addition to English, IQ Bot can extract data in
Spanish, French, Italian and German.

Metso (India) Pvt. Ltd. and CDE Asia Limited have agreed on
marketing cooperation in order to provide comprehensive manufactured sand
solutions to customers in India. Metso's scope covers the crushing and
screening technology, and CDE Asia will provide the wet classification
equipment required in the manufactured sand production process.

The agreement is in line with Metso's
strategy to strengthen its capabilities by extending its portfolio in
cooperation with strong partners around the world, CDE in this case, and offer
comprehensive high-quality end-to-end solutions for an important segment like
manufactured sand.

"As a leading provider of equipment
and services for the mining and aggregates industries, we always aim to provide
the best solutions to our customers that are not only qualitative and efficient
in terms of profitability, but also environmentally sustainable. This new
marketing cooperation agreement allows the customers to acquire the whole
process easily, and at the same time forms a good platform for future growth
for both Metso and CDE Asia in India," states Kamal Pahuja, Vice
President, Mining and Aggregates, Metso India.

"The cooperation agreement with Metso
presents new opportunities for both organizations and has been well received by
our customers. The combination of Metso's and CDE Asia's sustainable
technologies produces well shaped, washed and graded manufactured sand,
helping to replace natural sand, which is fast becoming scarce and expensive.
This collaboration will benefit the sand manufacturers by providing
best-in-quality graded sand and sustainable operations by reusing up to 95% of
water used. By utilizing normally low-value crusher fines for sand
production, we can extend the life of natural resources
and also add huge commercial value to our
customer's enterprise," shares Manish Bhartia, Managing
Director, CDE Asia.

The cooperation agreement between Metso and
CDE Asia is restricted to marketing and development of common offerings for the
manufactured sand market by pooling the companies' expertise and knowledge.
Both parties negotiate and sign the terms of contracts independently with the
end customers, representing their respective companies only.

CDE is the leading provider of washing
equipment for quarries, mines and recycling operations on the global
market. The CDE equipment range has applications across a wide range of
materials and is delivering significant efficiencies in the construction and
recycling, mining, specialist industrial sands and environmental
sectors. Working across 5 sectors and 8 regions, CDE has been co-creating
with customers for over 20 years to deliver collaborative, imaginative and
unique processing systems.

The CDE Global Design Headquarters are
located in Northern Ireland and the company also has bases in Kolkata, India to
serve the Asian market, São Paulo, Brazil to serve the Latin American market,
Ormeau, Australia for Australasian market and North Carolina, USA, to serve the
North American market. CDE also has representatives based in North
Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.

Audi, the
German luxury car manufacturer has today announced attractive offers on Sales
and Service on the entire range of its product offerings.These offers are being
rolled out with immediate effect across dealerships and are only applicable
until the end of June, 2017.

“Customer Delight is at the
center of Audi’s focus and we are sure that our current offers will delight
Audi enthusiasts. The attractive prices and packages bring fantastic value to
the Audi enthusiasts. It is the best time to join the Audi family, buy your
dream Audi and benefit from the privileges of the Audi Club India. As opposed to
the market trend, this is not a measure to clear old stock; we are extending
the benefits on our new cars as well. This is what Customer Delight stands
for,” said Mr. Rahil Ansari, Head, Audi India.

Under the new schemes on Sales and
Service, Audi is offering competitive pricing on the entire model range. In
addition to this, the company has also announced a tailor-made Comprehensive
Service Package, which offers a variety of time and mileage options and range
of service plans for customers to choose as per their individual needs and
driving habits. The Comprehensive Service Package covers full maintenance,
warranty and wear and tear. The brand with the four rings has also announced
attractive finance and insurance schemes to make the experience of owning an
Audi even more exciting. Customers can now approach their nearest dealership to
avail tailor-made benefits to suit one’s requirement.

Cloudera, Inc, the provider of the leading
modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics, announced the
release of Cloudera Altus, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that makes
it easier to run large-scale data processing applications on public cloud. The
initial Altus service helps data engineers use on-demand infrastructure to
speed the creation and operation of elastic data pipelines that power
sophisticated, data-driven applications.

Data engineering applications like
ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) or batch scoring are often large,
batch-oriented workloads that run for a fixed period of time and help companies
extract critical insights from raw data. Organizations can gain significant
flexibility and efficiency advantages by running these pipelines on elastic
infrastructure. Enterprises want to leverage cloud infrastructure alongside
familiar large-scale data processing tools and technologies.

The Cloudera Altus Data Engineering
service simplifies the development and operations of elastic data pipelines;
putting data engineering jobs front and center and abstracting infrastructure
management and operations that can be both time consuming and complex. Altus
also reduces the risk associated with cloud migrations. It provides users with
familiar tools packaged in an open, unified, enterprise-grade platform service
that delivers common storage, metadata, security, and management across
multiple data engineering applications.

“Data engineering workloads are
foundational for today’s data-driven applications,” said Charles Zedlewski,
senior vice president of Products at Cloudera. “Altus simplifies the process of
building and running elastic data pipelines while preserving portability and
making it easy to incorporate data engineering elements into more complex BI,
data science and real-time applications.”

Cloudera makes it easy,
cost-effective, and convenient to deploy these workloads on cloud providers,
such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), taking advantage of cloud elasticity,
low-cost storage and compute options, and rapid provisioning to deliver a
modern data service that can tackle even the most challenging business
problems. Cloud object stores such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
are becoming increasingly popular for their resiliency, scalability, and
relatively low cost.

According to IDC, public cloud
deployments are now at 12% of the overall worldwide business analytics software
market and expected to grow at a 25% CAGR through 2020[1].Cloud is one of the fastest growing deployment
environments for Cloudera customers, and Altus makes it easier than ever to run
data engineering workloads in the cloud.

●Workload orientation -Cloudera Altus centers around data pipelines rather than
clusters or infrastructures, so users can easily submit, clone, and
troubleshoot pipelines with minimal attention paid to the underlying
infrastructure.

●No data siloes -The Altus Data Engineering service enables data engineers to run
direct reads from and writes to cloud object storage as does the rest of
Cloudera’s platform. This data is immediately available for use by other
Cloudera workloads without requiring data replication, ETL or changes to file
formats. In doing so users can more easily incorporate data engineering into
their data science, BI and real time DB applications.

●Backward compatibility and platform portability -Altus
supports multiple versions of CDH the most widely used open source platform in
the industry. Users can easily move workloads to and from the cloud without
needing to modify their applications. Because CDH is backward compatible across
minor releases, customers can harness the latest innovation from the Apache big
data open source community without fear of breaking their applications from
release to release.

●Built-in workload management -Altus automates and simplifies the common operational issues
related to elastic data pipelines with workload management. Users can
troubleshoot failed jobs with or without the clusters or compute infrastructure
being present. In addition Altus’ workload management flags significant
performance deviations and proposes a root cause analysis. In doing so
customers can run their data pipelines with greater reliability and lower cost.

The initial rollout of Cloudera Altus
includes support for Apache Spark, Apache Hive on MapReduce2, and Hive on
Spark. It is available today in most Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions. Over
time Cloudera plans to expand Altus to support other leading public clouds such
as Microsoft Azure, etc.

The award
winning luxury resort – The Tamara Coorg, known
for its picturesque, tranquil and peaceful experiences, will add another
exceptional feature to its property with the launch of its Yoga Temple.
As the name suggests, the ‘Yoga Temple’ will be a place of divine worship where
one can connect with one’s inner self. Inspired by the garbha griha or a
sanctum sanctorum, with The Yoga Temple, The Tamara Coorg takes another step
towards facilitating an environment of wellness for its guests, attained
through a feeling of deep purity, peace and contentment. The spiritual soul of
The Tamara Coorg will be launched on World Yoga Day on June
21, 2017.

The Yoga
Temple, the first of its kind in India, was conceptualized to be a secular
meditative space which unites the mind, body and spirit amidst an exuberant
interplay of light, colour and texture. It is located on one acre of converted
land surrounded by the lush
greenery and serenity of the neighbouring organic coffee plantation and east facing mountain ridges.

In line with
the World Yoga Day, The Tamara Coorg will observe a special ‘Week of
Revival’ between June 19 and 22, 2017.
Whether a beginner or an advanced practitioner, guests’ can choose to partake
in any or all of the below sessions with the in-house yoga expert –

-Start the day by mastering the art of Asana, the posture while
performing yoga and Pranayama, the practice of controlling the breath which is
the vital life force, between 8:00 – 9:00 hrs

-Stimulate different body parts and the mind with Yoga Mudra between 11:00
– 12:00 hrs

-End the day by calming one’s senses with the guided meditation and art
of breathing session between17:00 – 18:00 hrs

Speaking
about the launch Shruti Shibulal, Promoter & Director of The
Tamara said, “At The Tamara, we endeavour to provide our guests an
all-encompassing experience through a series of our thoughtfully curated
offerings. We want our guests to unwind and absorb the goodness and the
calmness of the surroundings at The Tamara Coorg. With the launch of the ‘Yoga
Temple’ we are certain about enabling a holistic experience for our guests that
will help them restore balance, harmonize energy and revitalize their mind,
body and soul. We take great pride in presenting a truly authentic
experience, which can heal, calm and connect one to a larger positive force.”

A team of
well trained and experienced yoga instructors will assist practitioners replace
restlessness with calm, impatience with fortitude and the constant search for
the self with a complete sense of being. At The Yoga Temple, guests will
experience for themselves a sense of complete relaxation which enables one to
attain spiritual happiness and inner strength.

The Yoga Temple
is exceptional in all aspects of architecture - proportion, colour, sound and
temperature. It is built through the fusion of long-established knowledge and
contemporary technology celebrating the amalgamation of sacred art and
architecture. Adorned with traditional Mangalore clay roof tiles and laterite
stone craft, the Yoga Temple has been re-imagined to revive indigenous art and
extend appreciation to local artisans.

The oil diyas
light up the space and elevate the divinity of this place. It is spread across ­­­­1000
sq. ft. of land which is part of the Elevation Spa and leisure area. The Yoga Temple can
accommodate 10 to 12 practitioners at any point in time.

The ‘Yoga
Temple’ will be open from 7:00 – 9:00 hrs and from 17:00 – 19:00 hrs.